Shen Yanming took out the folding staircase and took down the curtains next to the bedroom. "I'll take these to my place to wash. You can also wash the sheets, blankets, and sofa cushions."

As he spoke, Shen Yanming shook his head, "It's such a waste, so upsetting."

Zhang Heping nodded, piled everything that needed washing together, paid special attention to the oil stains and fingerprints, and then put them all into the washing machine to rinse.

When Shen Yanming opened his bedroom door, he found that Bi Qiaoan had already gotten up. After briefly telling Bi Qiaoan about the Song family's affairs, he took the curtains to the small balcony to rinse them.

Bi Qiaoan felt deep sympathy for Zhang Heping and decided to soothe her neighbor's wounded heart with delicious food.

After giving some instructions to Bi Qiaoan, Shen Yanming returned to the Zhang family home and continued to help Zhang Heping tidy up his messy house, sweeping, mopping, and wiping the windowsills.

It wasn't until noon that he took Zhang Heping home for lunch.

Bi Qiaoan prepared a sumptuous lunch, including squirrel-shaped mandarin fish, stir-fried cauliflower, green pepper and pork slices, hand-shredded cabbage, and lotus root and pork rib soup. Hehe, actually, the lotus root and pork rib soup was taken directly from her space.

"Qiao An, you're amazing! The dishes are so plentiful!" Zhang Heping gave Bi Qiao An a thumbs up.

Bi Qiaoan felt a little guilty. "The lotus root and pork rib soup was made last night. I just heated it up. The rest of the dishes were quick to make."

"At least the ingredients are plentiful. You don't know, I eat in the cafeteria every day, and it's always the same two dishes. My mouth feels tasteless. Today I'm lucky to have something to eat."

Shen Yanming quickly spoke up, "Now you can see the benefits of having vegetables at home, right? These vegetables were all grown by Qiao An at home. As for fish and meat, Qiao An bought a lot and froze them in the refrigerator."

Zhang Heping swallowed the food in his mouth before speaking, "Then I'll learn from you and go replenish the ingredients in a bit."

Shen Yanming chuckled lightly, saying nothing more, but in his heart he thought, "You'll understand the importance of ingredients once you run into some trouble."

After a short rest at noon, Shen Yanming and Zhang Heping went out.

Zhang Heping went to buy flower pots, vegetables, and meat, accompanied by Shen Yanming, who also bought his own family's supplies for the month.

Bi Qiaoan didn't go with them; she stayed home and made soup.

There are two pots on the gas stove: one contains mutton and radish soup, and the other contains white fungus, lotus seed, and red date soup.

Bi Qiaoan thought for a moment, searched for a recipe online, took out the ingredients, and prepared to try baking a pizza.

Hehe, the current space is so convenient. Even when my husband isn't around, I can still access whatever I want.

Following the online tutorial, Bi Qiaoan mixed high-gluten flour, eggs, salt, sugar, butter, milk, and yeast in the correct proportions, kneaded it well, and waited for it to ferment.

Then brush a layer of butter on the pizza pan, roll the fermented dough into a circle and put it in, stretch and press it with your hands until it is thin and even, and prick small holes in it with a fork.

Finally, preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius, put the dough in and bake until the surface is slightly browned, then take it out, brush the dough with tomato sauce, add cheese strips, sprinkle with beef cubes, green bell pepper rings, and cherry tomatoes, put it back in the oven and bake in the middle rack with both top and bottom heat for about 10 minutes.

After a lot of work, Bi Qiaoan finally finished making it. She took a knife, cut off a corner, put it in her mouth and chewed. It was delicious!

Bi Qiaoan was very happy and busied herself putting the remaining pizza into her spatial storage, waiting for Shen Yanming to return and present it to her.

Shen Yanming's situation is not going so well. Perhaps due to the influence of "Idol Farmer," many people have been coming to buy flower pots recently.

Zhang Heping finally managed to squeeze in and buy a dozen or so flowerpots, and they were the worst kind. "My God, only fifteen available, it's really not easy."

Shen Yanming nodded and drove Zhang Heping to buy groceries.

The two walked around Times Square and realized that it's really not easy to buy things these days.

Meat is limited to five jin per person per month, grain to thirty jin per person per month, vegetables to three jin per person per week, and clothing to two sets per person per year, including underwear, outerwear, shoes, and socks...

However, some things are not restricted, such as purified water, beverages, jewelry, watches, etc. In fact, it can be said that there are restrictions on scarce resources and survival resources, while other things are left to the market.

Shen Yanming and Zhang Heping ordered dozens of 5L cases of purified water and agreed to have them delivered to their door.

Afterwards, with only a few supplies, they drove home and headed straight for Qingning Mountain.

Shen Yanming took out a small shovel from the trunk, scooped out the soil and put it into the flower pots. It took a long time to fill Zhang Heping's fifteen flower pots.

The two carried the flowerpots into the trunk, ignoring their soaking wet clothes, and drove straight back to the underground parking garage.

After the car stopped, Zhang Heping ran back and forth several times to put the flowerpots into the elevator. Shen Yanming wiped the rainwater off the car seat with a cloth and then went to help Zhang Heping carry them.

A few minutes later, the two of them moved all the flowerpots into 1601.

Shen Yanming told Zhang Heping to wash up quickly before returning home. As soon as he opened the door, he smelled the aroma of food.

"Where have you been? Why are you all wet?" Bi Qiaoan asked anxiously when she saw that Shen Yanming was soaking wet.

"I dug up a few basins of soil for Zhang Heping, but I was moving around a bit too much and they got wet. I'm going to take a shower first."

Bi Qiaoan nodded, turned around and went back to the kitchen. She packed the prepared soup into a lunchbox, and after Shen Yanming washed it, she put it into her spatial storage.

"Give this one to Zhang Heping, lest he catch a cold." Bi Qiaoan handed a box of mutton and radish soup to Shen Yanming.

Shen Yanming nodded, got up and knocked on Zhang Heping's door. In addition to the box of mutton soup he was carrying, he also had a packet of vegetable seeds.

When Shen Yanming returned, Bi Qiaoan had already taken out the pizza she made. "Try mine, how is it?"

"not bad!"

In the evening, Bi Qiaoan turned on the TV and found lamb's quarters, dandelion, and roses on tonight's "Foraging in the Wild".

Bi Qiaoan took out her phone and scrolled through Weibo to see if anyone had taken any action.

Well, it's disappointing. Although some people are watching, not many are taking action. Most people are still going out to buy groceries, even though there are purchase limits outside.

After thinking for a moment, Bi Qiaoan posted a Weibo message using her own account.

Cha Cha Li: Why don't people go outside to find ingredients?

A dozen comments appeared instantly on Weibo.

Netizen "Li Ni": Nobody's going, I feel bad going alone.

Netizen Glass: There are still vegetables for sale in the market, what's the rush? You can buy them if you have money.

Netizen Lily: If there are no vegetables, there's still meat; if there's no meat, there's still fish. We eat so much, we won't starve to death.

Although Bi Qiaoan felt there was a tiny bit of truth to it, she still commented.

Chacha Li: Eating meat every day isn't enough; it leads to a lack of vitamins. With such a long dry season, how can we survive without vegetables?

Netizen YaYa: OP, what do you suggest we do?

Netizen Glass: Don't worry, there's nothing you can't buy with money!

Bi Qiaoan felt that Glass, this nouveau riche, was a bit out of touch with reality, and thought she should remind him.

Chacha Li: Where can we buy it if no one else has it?